Well, firstly, I believe pressing one of the menu buttons on the monitor will get rid of the message. Also though, why not just set your resolution to 1280x1024? Right click on the desktop (a blank part of it), go to properties, then settings. Then drag the slider until it reaches 1280x1024 (no further) and go OK.

its probly a bit late for this but attach a different monitor to it and reset the screen resolution to the recommended? does it display it on the monitor in question?

a further step would be to install remote viewing software such as VNC (obviously this would be a bit difficult if the above suggestion is not possible) and log into it from another PC, thus being able to change the display until you find one that works and live with what ever that is..

It seems to work fine if I boot up with another monitor and change over once the operating system is running, fully discharging the PSU before turning on the Monitor. Whatever the resolution it always fails to reboot. The error occurs after the Win2000 screen has displayed all the blue dots. Normally a blank blue screen appears and at this point instead,it goes black, after which the error message shows up. I changed the driver to the proper Samsung one but that didn't resolve the prolem either.